256526 - Address collection is case sensitive

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 129393

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Ross Becker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

When thunderbird automatically collects email addresses, it is case-sensitive
when it adds them to the "collected email addresses" book. If I recieve email
from   two differently cased versions of the same address, I get two entries in
the addressbook. 



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
collected email addresses should be case insensitive. Only one entry per
address, as per the RFC email addresses are case-insensitive.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #0)

> Expected Results:  
> collected email addresses should be case insensitive. Only one entry per
> address, as per the RFC email addresses are case-insensitive.

Actually, email-address are case-sensitive before the '@' sign
([e-mail] isn't the same as [e-mail] or
[e-mail]), see RFC822, para 6. But in reality that doesn't happen,
and lots of mail-applications (client, server, MTA, ..) will happily translate
from uppercase to lowercase and back. If the  address collection would use it,
it wopuld be a big advantage.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129393 ***

Comment 2

[Merlin Cul Kirkpatrick]

To the best of my knowledge this bug still exists in the main code.  To get it fixed please go to bug 129393 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129393 and click the vote button to raise its level of importance.